Pyongyang, North Korea
Mangyongdae Funfair
This abandoned-looking amusement park is frighteningly open for business.
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Pyongyang, North Korea
This abandoned-looking amusement park is frighteningly open for business.
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Time capsule of a museum, in which the Soviet Union remains alive and kicking.
Moscow, Russia
Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.
Zlatiborski okrug, Serbia
A grand Yugoslav memorial to the group of partisans who fought and died resisting western Serbia’s Nazi occupation.
Zugarramurdi, Spain
A museum dedicated to the Spanish occult in a town that was terrorized by the Inquisition.
Zugarramurdi, Spain
This Navarrese cave's history of witchcraft and pagan ritual is not just embraced, but recreated each year.
Derby, England
The longest stone bridge in England has an impressive history that dates back over 700 years.
Nottingham, England
This unchanged Victorian park is rumored to have been the inspiration behind Peter Pan's Neverland.
Ormond Beach, Florida
The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.
Partridge, Kentucky
You can climb to the summit of Black Mountain, as long as you sign the waiver.
Rock, West Virginia
This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.
Duffield, Virginia
A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.
Erwin, Tennessee
Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.
Granville, New York
Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.
Seydisfjordur, Iceland
An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.
Zinnowitz, Germany
An elevator into the Baltic Sea.
Hartfield, England
The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.
Pomfret, Connecticut
A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.
Union, Connecticut
This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.
New Haven, Connecticut
While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.
Brattleboro, Vermont
A treasure trove of rare and fine fabrics from around the world.
Alcoy, Spain
A dictator's failed public works project has been reborn as two linked trails through spectacular scenery.
Afton, Virginia
A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.
Sillamäe, Estonia
This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.